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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by darawk on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:12PM (#17973384)
It didn't keep those people anywhere. They were free to go live as hunter-gatherers whensoever they chose. They chose not to do that, because they believed that working was a better life.
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by zaarn on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:10AM (#17975942)
In later stages it actually did keep those people there because they either couldn't afford to leave the city without half the family starving and/or militia hired by the factory owner enforcing people stayed there.
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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by darawk on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:56AM (#17979592)
> militia hired by the factory owner enforcing people stayed there.

That isn't capitalism.

> In later stages it actually did keep those people there because they either couldn't afford to leave the city without half the family starving

I'm not sure what that means. Cities weren't that big. Just walk out and go live on some uninhabited BLM land if you don't want to participate in the capitalist economy.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by zaarn on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:12PM (#17979731)
>That isn't capitalism.

Well, everything was steered by capital that the factory owners had.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by darawk on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:01PM (#17980828)
Sure, but that doesn't make it capitalism.
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